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Title:

Lusosex : gender and sexuality in the Portuguese-speaking world / Susan Canty Quinlan and Fernando Arenas, editors.

Publisher:

University of Minnesota Press,

Copyright Date:

c2002

Description:

xxxvii, 317 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Brazilian literature--History and criticism.
Portuguese literature--History and criticism.
African literature (Portuguese)--History and criticism.
Sex in literature.
Sex in popular culture--Portuguese-speaking countries.
Sex customs--Portuguese-speaking countries.

Other Authors:

Quinlan, Susan Canty, 1948-
Arenas, Fernando, 1963-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Al Berto, in memoriam : the Luso queer principle / Mario César Lugarinho. PART IV. Queer nations in Portuguese -- Tivira, the man with the broken butt : same-sex practices among Brazilian Indians / João Silvério Trevisan -- Machado de Assis and Graciliano Ramos : speculations on sex and sexuality / John Gledson -- Fernando Pessoa's gay heteronym? / Richard Zenith -- Brazilian homoerotics : cultural subjectivity and representation in the fiction of Gilberto Freyre / Jossianna Arroyo -- Fictions of the impossible : Clarice Lispector, Lúcio Cardoso, and "Impossibilidade" / Severino João Albuquerque -- PART II. On subjects, on sex -- Loving in the lands of Portugal : sex in women's fictions and the nationalist order / Ana Paula Ferreira -- Not just for love, pleasure, or procreation : eroto-racial, sociopolitical, and mystic-mythical discourses of sexuality in Pepetela's A geração da utopia / Russell G. Hamilton -- Border writing, postcoloniality, and critical difference in the works of Orlanda Amarílis / Phyllis Peres -- "I was Evita," or Ecce femina : Lídia Jorge's The murmuring coast / Ronald W. Sousa -- PART III. Brazilian performativities -- Supermen and Chiquita Bacana's daughters : transgendered voices in Brazilian popular music / César Braga-Pinto -- Cross-dressing : Silviano Santiago's fictional performances / Susan Canty Quinlan -- PART IV. Queer nations in Portuguese -- Small epiphanies in the night of the world : the writing of Caio Fernando Abreu / Fernando Arenas -- Impossible body : queering the nation in modern Portuguese dance / André Torres Lepecki -- Al Berto, in memoriam : the Luso queer principle / Mario César Lugarinho.

ISBN:

9780816639212 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0816639213 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780816639205 (hc : alk. paper)
0816639205 (hc : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)49650243

LCCN:

2002005414

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)